I am currently the Senior Advisor for Application Development at Computas, responsible to support any of our software teams and developers in his or her quest to become a better programmer. Holding a M.Sc. in Computer Science and M.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Leuven, I have more than twenty years of experience as a software engineer. During my career, I've held roles like developer, architect, business analyst and technical lead in many projects. I have a special interest in IT security and software quality.Programming languages I have worked with include Java, Ruby, XML & friends (SVG, HTML, XSLT, XSD, etc…), Shell scripts, Perl, Smalltalk and many others. I have worked with technologies like REST and SOAP, used and produced open source software, am familiar with methodologies and techniques like TDD, static code analysis, mutation testing, Scrum, Lean, Agile, DSDM and #NoEstimates.Apart from working in longer term projects, I can do the following type of shorter assignments:- Review of architectural and technological decisions in software projects- Recommendations for strategic technological and architectural decisions in software projects- Estimation of software migration projects- Evaluation of code quality- Code reviews- Help with the establishment or implementation of good software development practicesI like to do talks at international IT conferences from time to time, may blog once in a while, and have hosted a couple of podcast episodes.As a hobby project, I participate in Europe Elects. One of my responsibilities at Europe Elects is the development and maintenance of the opinion poll database, currently containing the results of more than 15,000 opinion polls across many countries. The database also contains structured information about polling firms, past and future elections, and will on the longer term also include election results. Another responsibility at Europe Elects is the production of seat projections for both the European Parliament and some of the national and regional assemblies. These projections are based on the opinion polls in the database, with the application of the relevant electoral system in each country. Skills involved in this project include applied statistics, knowledge of the various electoral systems in Europe, and various numerical techniques to produce fast approximations of hypergeometrical distributions.